This review is from: Where Angels
Prey (Paperback)
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The world is facing one of its
greatest financial crises yet, but only in one country - India - is a boom
happening in an unlikely industry: microfinancing. It's this fact which comes
to the attention of Robert Bradlee, senior correspondent with The New York
Post, who decides to personally investigate these strange facts; only to
discover that what seems like a wonderfully successful altruistic business of
providing financial services for small business in poor or rural communities in
reality hides a deadly truth.
What Robert discovers isn't financial opportunity or social grace, but a program that holds devastating implications for India's poor.
The frightening part of this story doesn't lie in the fact that this novel is a realistic financial thriller with a global setting so much as that it's loosely inspired by real life in Andhra Pradesh, India, and holds alarming implications for business and social causes alike.
For this reason alone (in addition to the fact that the story is an edge-of-your-seat compelling read), Where Angels Prey is a recommended pick for thriller readers looking for something slight different: a realistic saga which will strike a little too close to home for many cognizant of Wall Street involvements in the lives of Third World residents.
What Robert discovers isn't financial opportunity or social grace, but a program that holds devastating implications for India's poor.
The frightening part of this story doesn't lie in the fact that this novel is a realistic financial thriller with a global setting so much as that it's loosely inspired by real life in Andhra Pradesh, India, and holds alarming implications for business and social causes alike.
For this reason alone (in addition to the fact that the story is an edge-of-your-seat compelling read), Where Angels Prey is a recommended pick for thriller readers looking for something slight different: a realistic saga which will strike a little too close to home for many cognizant of Wall Street involvements in the lives of Third World residents.
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